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The second of three High Roller events has just come to a close with Jeffrey Cormier claiming the title after defeating Jonathan Karamalikis heads-up, locking in a cool $160,000 payout for his victory as well as a World Cup of Cards Champion’s Trophy.

26 players came together to participate in this $10,000 + $300 6-Max Re-entry, culminating in 39 total shells fired. Since the $400,000 guarantee was not reached, this figure became the prize pool and was divided into 5 payouts. A number of players jumped into play leading in to the start of Day 2, taking advantage of the late registration period and potential overlay, and the shark riddled field went straight to action, starting off with a slew of eliminations. Early exits came from the part of Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault, Philippe D’Auteuil, Pascal Lefrancois, Senthuran Vijayaratnam and Jonathan Duhamel, to name a few.

The final table was formed when the final 7 players were reached, with Kristen Bicknell and Ari Engel narrowly missing the payouts. Long time chip-leader Jeffrey then went on to eliminate Francois Billard (5th – $30,000) and JK Kastner (4th – $43,000) before 3-handed action began. David Ormsby (3rd – $58,000) tried to pull an ambitious bluff only to lose half of his stack, and then ran into the Pocket-Rockets of Jonathan to fall in 3rd place.

The heads-up duel began fairly even-stacked, however within a few orbits Jeffrey managed to pull away to a 3-to-1 chip lead. In the final hand of play, he picked up in the small blind and opened the 40,000 big blind to 100,000. Jonathan moved in with for 1,045,000 and was met with a quick call. The board brought no danger to Jeffrey’s Pocket-Kings and he eliminated Jonathan in 2nd place for $97,000, emerging as our $10K High Roller champion!

Event 26 in the World Cup of Cards is down to just 2 players battling for the title of the $10K High Roller, which is accompanied by a top prize of $160,000 and a WCC Champion’s Trophy.

Jeffrey Cormier (2,068,000 – 86bb) begins the heads-up match versus Jonathan Karamalikis (1,858,000 – 77bb) with a slight lead, however with these deep stacks it can swing in either direction. Tune-in to the live-stream (on 30 minutes delay) if you want to watch them play down to our winner!

After losing a good portion of his chips to Karamalikis on a pressed bluff, David Ormsby went all-in for 297K from the button. Jonathan Karamalikis called, and so did Jeffrey Cormier from the big blind. Jonathan led the flop with a 275K bet, and Cormier folded his .

David Ormsby:
Jonathan Karamalikis:

Jonathan had found a monster! David had 2 shots at 5 outs, but the , and Ormsby was out in 3rd.